40 Unusual Things People Came Across That Made Them Think They'd Entered A "Parallel Universe"

What’s interesting, however, is that finding photos of these unusual Mcdonald's is becoming a task in its own right. Krieger, the creator of the “Nonstandard McDonald’s” Twitter, told Vox: “I was just surprised at how hard it was to find photo evidence of these weird McDonald’s that I had been to a couple of times, including the so-called Mayor McCheese mansion in Independence, Ohio.”

According to him, “One thing you figure out very quickly is that most of these places are no longer operating. They’re defunct.” Vox explains that many of these offbeat McDonald’s were pilot restaurants for culinary concepts that were eventually abandoned by the corporate mothership, such as “McDiners” which served classic greasy spoon fare.